Told over multiple timelines, I Used to Be Funny shifts between present-day, where Sam is grappling with severe depression, and the past, where she’s a more vivacious version of herself. She begins to ...

Welcome to 2024, when social media offers millions of ways to get noticed. But funny online doesn’t hold a candle to in-your-face funny. Live comedy is king (or queen), and with the new year comes the ...

There’s a quote that is often used to describe comedy: “We must laugh to keep us from crying.” Napoleon Bonaparte first said it, but over time, the words evolved, but the meaning remained the same: ...

A weekly pickup basketball game in Manhattan is populated almost entirely by professional funny people from all corners of the comedy landscape — stand-up comedians on their way up, comics past their ...

RACHEL SENNOTT: (As Sam) You know, I am working on some material about teens in general. OLGA PETSA: (As Brooke Renner) Oh? SENNOTT: (As Sam) Yes. How it's no fair that Gen Z already knows about, like ...

Female comedians on Netflix offer a mix of seasoned vets and rising stars for endless laughs. Stand-up comedy has evolved through the years, with female comedians now taking the genre by storm. Fresh ...

“Anything that keeps me off Dancing with the Stars is good,” Chris Rock was telling David Letterman a few weeks ago, explaining why he’s co-starring in his first Broadway play. It was a perfect Rock ...

During the episode Big B also tried his hands at stand-up comedy, when he went behind the mic, and delivered a joke, as he ...

Anyone who’s seen Jim Carrey’s 2017 Showtime series I’m Dying Up Here or the movie Lenny knows stand-up comedians are tortured souls, prone to drown their self-deprecation in drugs and alcohol in a ...

Behold the spotlight, the microphone. The audience, hushed in anticipation. The music as he (usually he, sometimes she) walks to the empty stage. Then, the opening joke. Funny, we hope, but like a ...